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Message by Member Secretary, State Planning Commission Preface by the District Collector Acknowledgement List of Boxes List of Figures List of Tables CHAPTERS I District Profile 01 11 II Status of Human Development 23 23 III Employment, Income and Poverty 24 31 IV Demography, Health and Nutrition 32 50 V Literacy and Education 51 71 VI Gender 72 79 VII Social Security 80 86 VIII Infrastructure 87 97 IX Summary and Way Forward 98 110 Annexures Technical Notes Abbreviation References
THIRUVARUR DISTRICT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2017
District Administration, Thiruvarur and State Planning Commission, Tamil Nadu in association with Thiru.Vi.Ka.Government Arts College, Thiruvarur
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Message by Member Secretary, State Planning Commission Preface by the District Collector Acknowledgement List of Boxes List of Figures List of Tables CHAPTERS I District Profile 01 11 II Status of Human Development 23 23 III Employment, Income and Poverty 24 31 IV Demography, Health and Nutrition 32 50 V Literacy and Education 51 71 VI Gender 72 79 VII Social Security 80 86 VIII Infrastructure 87 97 IX Summary and Way Forward 98 110 Annexures Technical Notes Abbreviation References
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is the imitative of the State Planning Commission (SPC) Government of Tamil Nadu to prepare District Human Development Report (DHDR) for Thiruvarur district with the financial support received from the UNDP and Government of India. The State Planning Commission took up the task as a constructive exercise towards streaming the Government programmes to yield the deserved intended results. The endeavor of preparing this report has been assigned to Thiru. Vi. Ka. Government Arts College, Thiruvarur by the State Planning Commission in Collaboration with the district Administration. A district level core committee was constituted with the district Collector as the Chairman and Mr. M. Nagentran, Assistant Professor and Head, Post Graduate Studies and Research Department of Economics, Thiru. Vi. Ka. Government Arts College, Thiruvarur as the Coordinator. This Human Development Report has been kept contract and has been seen through to completion with the support and encouragement of innumerous people. It is a pleasant task to express my thanks to all those who contributed in many ways to the preparation of the report. First of all I would like to express my sincere thanks to Tmt. Santha Sheela Nair (Retd), IAS Former Vice Chairman, State Planning Commission, Government of Tamil Nadu for constantly reviewing the progress of this exercise and supplementing with valuable suggestions.